Old style car registrations

LI is a wesmeath registration,and JLI*** lasted from feb69 to jan70 so id guess your morris was a 1969 car.:)

Max_Damage wrote: »

Carchaeologist, you should try and open up a separate forum here, a car registration forum!

Haha,itd be no fun then!!Id have to be all serious like!!:P

368 EZL-Dublin,issued middle of march 81

255 AZU-Dublin,mid jan 82

JZS 665-Dublin,late august 84

858 MYI-Dublin,mid july 76

No bother with the reg info,as geeky as it sounds,i just love old irish reg numbers,and any discussion whatsoever is good!!
Its not a subject that many people can talk about without falling asleep,thats why the good old internet is great for this sort of thing.:D

Well,9603EI was a
Registration9603EI MakeOPEL ModelKADETT Description1.6D VAN Fuel TypeDIESEL
And 9606EI was a
Registration9606EI MakeFORD ModelFIESTA Description1.6D L Fuel TypeDIESEL
Nothing from 9601 to 9609 comes up as a kawasaki,you will have to dig out some photos!!:)

TheDriver wrote: »

Oh Sweet Lord, big brother is here....................! How do i get the impression you checked all the regs!

Heh heh,well the information is available to all on www.cartell.ie Might as well use it as its there!!

carchaeologist wrote: »

My capri has a KIT*** reg!!Im half thinking of painting it black and putting LED lights on the front:DKIT*** was the last leitrim reg before the change in 87,finished up at KIT780.
As for the ***PZU reg,twas a dublin issue from the last few days of april 82 to the first few days of march 82. Another case of dublin chomping through their allocations!!

Were bikes reged different back then? I had a Yamaha RD350lc PZW244 I'm sure it was 81..

Also 2 cars my Da had way back one was a Vw Golf 7 DZC and a Beetle LLI 174 If you can put dates to em I'd appreciate..

carchaeologist wrote: »

Can do..
Bikes were issued the same allocations as cars were,there was no difference.

PZW*** was a kildare issue from august 1980 to january 1981,would probably date your bike to 1980.

***DZC was a dublin county issue,lasted for about a week in september 1977(***CZC&***EZC were also issued that same month,7DZC was a nice reg,i suppose the golf has gone to the scrapper in the sky a long time ago,and it would have been one of the early ones with the round clock dash board too....

LLI*** was a westmeath issue from october 1970 to august 1971

Thanks for the info Carchaeologist, thats very interesting.

just seen this thread and thought maybe you could advise on a possible date of registration for the old motorbike attached - reg YI 2685 :

from what I can tell YI was assigned to Dublin County Council, and it may have been quite early on in the vehicle registrations.


thanks..


Shane

one that has stuck in my head is UZI 911, which was on a Mirafiori a neighbour had. I remember a father and daughter having 2 cars in the early 80s having the same letters and digits except in reverse eg 123 PIM and PIM 123, think it was a Ford Prefect and a new Datsun at the time.

I remember we had three cars throughout my youth:

2 FNI Toyota Carina Saloon, Had it since new prob early eighties, we sold it in '92 with 212k miles and the owner moved to the UK, I assume it's long gone.

XXX EI (Not sure if thats right) Volkswagen Transporter Van converted to a camper, at a guess it was also late eighties. Sold locally in '98. Used to see it driving around up until 2007.

36 PHI VW Beetle 1966 - My favourite of them all! Rotten as hell but my Dad restored her into great nick. Deadly number plate (Divine proportion etc!). 27k miles on her but I'd say that was her second time around the clock. Although there was only one other lady owner in the log book between 1966 and 1988. I was gutted he swapped it last year plus €1k for a ZV Morris Traveller also 1966

The 1904 system which covered all of the then-UK is described at www.wolfbane.co.uk

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

My uncle has a house on Knockanore mountain near Ballybunion in Kerry and on a walk up the mountain one evening during my first visit in 2001 I came across three old, abandoned cars in a small field. Having a camera with me, and plenty of film in it, I decided to take photos of them, which I still have. They were:

4410 ZF - an Opel Ascona from 1979,
9511 IN - a Morris Ital from late 1981/early 1982,
4429 DI - an Audi 100 from around 1982.

All three have since disappeared from the field - but the Morris and the Audi are still listed on Cartell. I'd be surprised if they've been restored, as they, and the Ascona, all look ready for scrapping in my photos.

Cool! Any chance of seeing the pics,as im from kerry myself!They will be listed on cartell as they were on the system after 1993,as thats when it all became computerised,and cars not taxed then were simply not recorded.Any that came to light afterwards and that were taxed were just re listed.

As has already been said,YI**** was originally issued by dublin county borough council between April 1921 to March 1927.Id sat that bike looks like its carrying its original plate though,not a transfered reg.

It was also possible to transfer a number (as is still the case in the UK) back with the old system. I had a golf, think it was an 84 with the reg IT 200. This number goes back to nearly the start of the old reg system and therefore must have been transferred.

Yes,alot of this went on back in the day alright,there was GTI1 and GTI2 on MK1 VW golfs GTIs,GTI 205 on a 205 gti,obviously enough.Z1 is a lotus elan.1Z is an alfa romeo.

Why do some old cars have red plates at the rear?
When did that get phased out?
How can I find out if a car has been scrapped or not, I'd love to know whats become of some of my old yokes.

The red rear/white front plate system was discontinued with the introduction of the new year/county/number registration system on january 1st 1987.
All new plates issued between then and january 1st 1991 were white background and black letters.
On the 1st of january 1991 the new IRL european type plate was introduced.

To find out the history of your car,you could try cartell,but you will have to pay for each search.It was free when it first started,but the system went into meltdown soon after due to all the usage!